John Isner holds the ATP's (Association of Tennis Professionals) official record for the fastest serve at 253 km/h. Calculate the de Broglie wavelength of a tennis ball with the standard weight of 58.8 grams. Give your answer in 10^(-34) m (for example, if your answer is 5.6x10^(-34) m, then enter 5.6). This should give you a good idea of why one cannot expect to observe interference affects using tennis balls rather then, for example, electrons.

Alex Baird

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2022-07-22

John Isner holds the ATP's (Association of Tennis Professionals) official record for the fastest serve at 253 km/h. Calculate the de Broglie wavelength of a tennis ball with the standard weight of 58.8 grams. Give your answer in 10 34 m (for example, if your answer is 5.6 × 10 34 m, then enter 5.6). This should give you a good idea of why one cannot expect to observe interference affects using tennis balls rather then, for example, electrons.

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Abraham Norris

Abraham Norris

Beginner2022-07-23Added 16 answers

Given data:
The velocity is v=253 km/h.
Mass of tennis ball is m=58.8 g.
The De Broglie's equation for wavelength is,
λ = h m v
Here, h is Plank's constant whose value is 6.626 × 10 34 J s .
Substitute all values in above equation,
λ = 6.626 × 10 34 k g m 2 / s 58.8 g × 1 k g 1000 g × 253 k m / h × 5 m / s 18 k m / h λ = 1.6 × 10 34 m
Thus, the wavelength is 1.6 × 10 34 m .
The answer will be 1.6.

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